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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
It's a good point and the left should really internalize this. Russia is fun and I hope Trump et al go to supermax prisons or whatever but this is another area where the far right and the deplorables are way, way more politically savvy than their opponents, who are literally trying to beat up Trump with flag waving and CIA experts and American sovereignty concerns. The right has a pretty coordinated ideological campaign to ally with authoritarian despots and cheering on illiberal far right nationalist parties and are almost brazenly unapologetic for this. The far left has no interest in rallying around the flag.
And so like the people outraged over Trump's collusion with Russia and other sundry dictators outrage like 2% of the country that read Superman comics because he defended Truth, Justice and the American Way instead of why most normal people read Superman comics -- because he beat up bad guys. It's political theater without an audience. Trump's an idiot but his foreign policy is calculated and the base wants this. They're just morph America First into some authoritarian frame with Europe opposed and Russia and Saudi Arabia and Turkey on our side, and people fretting about America's old commitments to Cold War priorities are going to get caught holding the bag.